This crossword No. 26459 clues and answers were published on Sat 03 Jan 2015 and the puzzle can be visited by following The Guardian Prize Crossword No. 26459 link.
All Across Clues and Answers:
1-across – Forbidden City artist’s a blank slate : TABULA
4-across – Tasty bit of flesh enthrals a couple of males in Turkish bath : HAMMAM
9-across – See 1 : RASA
10-across – Go too far in clarifying heartless rule in case of one fiver being lost : OVERREFINE
11-across – Breakfast food starts to make us evacuate : MUESLI
12-across – Got ring? Badly in debt again, at first : OBTAINED
13-across – Bore through getting to speak at length about France : PERFORATE
15-across – Lift people out of morass? I took over : OTIS
16-across – Person getting kiss from Douglas? : MANX
17-across – Minerals lads regularly put in iron boxes : FELDSPARS
21-across – Almost go in prison in Split, due to bust? : CLEAVAGE
22-across – Fools one politician hired, working on board : SIMPLE
24-across – Mushroom terrine starter coated with syrup, after top taken off container : RECEPTACLE
25-across – See 22 : TONS
26-across – Kind of brown-backed flower : NATURE
27-across – Remained sober, reportedly : STAYED
All Down Clues and Answers:
1-down – Defame American beginning to dither during ceasefire : TRADUCE
2-down – Freezing cold bum pinched by two brothers? Yes, in play : BRASS
3-down – Can one going there be said to be more idiotic? : LOOPIER
5-down – Add gaseous mixture to a tea drunk by the Queen : AERATE
6-down – Fat spillage? Bungle and point rudely : MUFFINTOP
7-down – See 2 : MONKEYS
8-down – When stranded, how’s your father to get a cocktail? : SEXONTHEBEACH
14-down – Entertaining lady with extremely neat backside : FUNDAMENT
16-down – Scottish island with one foreign plant : MULLEIN
18-down – Decline to remove odour? : DESCENT
19-down – Given stripe in primary colour, as curtains may be : RELINED
20-down – Creator of Fantasy Island comic, according to Spooner : WALTER
23-down – See 20 : MITTY
This crossword has in total 29 where 16 are across and 13 are down.